Containers are a hot topic. The technology, which has been most typified by Docker, enables applications to be deployed as a lightweight set of processes rather than an entire virtual machine (VM).

Docker is a widely used developer tool that first simplifies the assembly of an application stack (docker build), then allows for the rapid distribution of the resulting executabl ...

The flaws let attackers abuse masked paths, console bind-mounts, and redirected writes to escape containers and gain host privileges. Three newly disclosed high-severity bugs in the “runc” container ...